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I am currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, Zürich. 

Previously, I was a Senior Staff Research Scientist and Tech Lead Manager at Google DeepMind. I led a multimodal research group in Zürich, with a focus on multimodal data (WebLI), open weight models (SigLIP, PaliGemma) and inclusivity (DataBalancing, CultureDiversity).

Before that, I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Peking University in 2014. 

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